Schools run in Illinois and Indiana when snow is very deep and those folks wonder why little ole Kentucky shuts down schools when snows are only 4 inches deep?In Kentucky we have winding roads that move around steep hills out in the country and those roads are sometimes in the wooded areas that do not see sunshine on winter days. Across the Ohio River 60 miles north a glacier came down into Illinois and Indiana and leveled the land flat.
School buses do not roll off ice covered roads on flat ground. We in Kentucky have snow days to keep the school buses off those roads that are dangerous with ice on them. Sometimes mom and pop can get their 4 wheeler out of those areas and bring the children to town where the roads are sometimes flat.
Kentucky roads also slant to the outside away from the center line and this makes for sliding off the road very easy when icy or snowy. The country roads are curvy and narrow and located on high bluffs and sliding down the mountain would mean certain death for school children in an unbelted school bus.
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